Fun Facts
Did you know the Missouri Lottery has awarded more than $2.7 billion in jackpot prizes (around $9 billion in prizes overall!), and more than half of the winners continue to work? Impress your friends with more Lottery trivia.
- The three highest multi-state Lottery jackpots awarded nationwide were: $656 million (three tickets) in Mega Millions on March 30, 2012; $587.5 million (two tickets) in Powerball on Nov. 28, 2012; and $390 million (two tickets) in Mega Millions, March 6, 2007.
- Currently, 354 tickets worth $1 million or more have been sold since the Missouri Lottery began in 1986, with more than $2.7 billion in jackpot prizes.
- The largest Powerball prize awarded in the state of Missouri was $298.7 million, won by a Dearborn couple on Nov. 28, 2012.
- Forty-four co-workers at the Independence Power & Light Department shared a $5.4 Million Powerball jackpot on May 23, 1998.
- The largest Lotto jackpot was a $19 million jackpot ($9.5 million cash) won by Phillip and Margaret McClurg of St. Louis on June 10, 2000.
- The Missouri Lottery averages more than 172,093 winners per day, totaling more than $2 million in prizes!
- An average of 981 players win every day playing Pick 3.
- An average of 198 players win every day playing Pick 4.
- Nearly all Missouri Lottery winners continue to play the Lottery.
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